Fat ship and crustaceans: Finished

Made some color studies, cleaned up the perspective (although something still seems off on the front...) and polished things up. Uploaded the design to Overnight Prints and ordered 100, which should arrive by the 8th, though I hope they come in time for GDC. I'm also going to use it for some headers: Tumblr, Twitter, facebook when I get timeline.

I also decided that 18 was a good number of crustaceans, and the collage works as a whole.

Since I'm done with my card, I'm getting back to work on the ANSC Trade Counter pamphlet, which I neglected for too long. In other news, I've been going to networking events all over the Bay area, some of which were harded to get to than others, meeting new people, hearing things, enjoying free food (payed enough for travel though.) In other news, I've had an email from New Deal Studios in LA, asking me compiling my resume and portfolio into one pdf would be helpful, which I hope is good news.

Fat Ship

I need new business cards for GDC. While I'm happy with the front, I'd like to redesign the back, taking advice I heard at GDC Online. Thought a fat ship would be fun, so I did some thumbnails, then did variations on my favorite.

Some more progress on the crustaceans, too.

Moved into a hotel in Dublin, CA. Still hoping I find a job soon, it would solve so many problems.

Black Friday Boxing Day

What started as random scribbling, has turned into a quick painting I call Tightly Wound

This has inspired me to create a world around this concept of ridiculous boxers in skinny jeans:

I may turn this into a thing. I've also added more crustaceans.

Crabs. New Study Collage

Same idea with the horses. Small goals make it easier to focus.

I'm in Berkeley now, been a week since I landed here. Kinda rushed to get here on Saturday, hoping to get to sketch bomb, ended up abandoning the idea after I took the long way around, since I set my GPS to avoid tolls, and struggling with the parking. Typical Itamar. Slowly building a schedule and expanding the network, still grasping to the hope I'll find a job soon.

Flail Dragon

Flail dragon, from concept sketches, to color studies, to sampled colors from photos, to vector. Pixel art next?

This past week has been painful. I had full intentions of leaving Saturday, the 7th, and reserved a car, thinking everything will go nice and dandy like it did when I rented in Columbus. At the rental office I found myself failing the credit check and denied a car, losing $50 in the process since I counted as a "no show." My dad mailed me a newly activated credit card to replace the expired one still in my wallet, which should have arrived by Saturday, but is now waiting to clear through US customs, and I have no idea how long that will take.

1911.2.M Tail number 513

The Marine variant, complete with arresting hook for carrier operations, delivered July 3rd 1913.

This is the last version of these planes. Learned how difficult it can be to make these orthographic views, finding myself returning to what I thought I had done right to correct things.

1911.2.D Tail no. 223

Delivered April 26th 1913 to the Kholodnia Army Air Defence Branch for zeppelin based operations.

Progress on my heron, too. I'm at the minor tweaks phase.

Moving on Saturday morning. It was fun, Austin. Maybe we'll meet again someday.